DC Attorney General Race
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Anonymous
I know Bruce Spiva. I sat on a board with him. Nice guy. DC will eat for lunch. |
Anonymous
Exactly. McDuffie couldn't litigate his way out of a paper bag--not with two years of legal practice under his belt. But neither does he have any experience managing a large, complex organization. To be an effective AG, one preferably should have both skills, but must at least have one or the other. |
Anonymous
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McDuffie will be just fine as an AG. Minimizing his legal background is imbalanced; the work of the AG is to be teh public face of the office and to manage all of the Assistant AG's who actually do the work.
Most folk have no clue how the AG's office in DC really works, as the work is mostly oversight to commercial transactions, real property disputes, and a hodgepodge of randomness. He'd be fine, as long as he gets along with people. Signed, former contractor who knows better. |
Anonymous
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McDuffie has NO experience managing legal cases or a staff the size of the DC AG. THAT is why is the most unqualified candidate in this race.
We should not accept a mayoral wannabee as a seat warmer for this important position. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I’m a former DC AAG and you have no idea what you are talking about. The key for someone like McDuffie would be to have capable deputies below him in the various divisions who have good command over the specific areas that those divisions deal with. Whether he has a deep enough network to accomplish that based on his limited experience as a practicing lawyer remains to be seen. |
Anonymous
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DC Board of Election rules that McDuffie is *not* qualified to run for AG because he has not been a practicing attorney in many years. A massive blunder by McDuffie, who gave up his Council seat to run for AG.
https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1516101791733198848 |
Anonymous
I mean, as irony goes… |
Anonymous
This was me. Glad to see the city agrees. Will be interesting to read the appeal. |
Anonymous
That's ridiculous. A councilmember should be able to run for AG. |
Anonymous
Considering that Council members are allowed to have outside employment, it's a bit silly that McDuffie failed to maintain a law practice for so many years. The law is the law. |
Anonymous
| I think he wins on appeal based on subpart (d) - an attorney in the district of columbia employed by the District of Columbia |
Anonymous
Doesn’t that mean employed by the District of Columbia as an attorney? |
Anonymous
If that's the meaning, then the authors should have been clear. I think there is a textual argument that the meaning has to be different because otherwise part D is meaningless since any attorney practicing in DC is already covered under subpart A. I think part D applies to lawyers employed by either the federal or dc governments who wouldn't otherwise qualify under part A (namely because they are not actively practicing law). |
Anonymous
He is a councilmember, not an attorney. He hasn't been a practicing attorney for more than a decade. The spirit of the law is that someone should be a practicing attorney. If a councilmember can become the attorney general, then it becomes a bully pulpit and what we need is a professional office rooted in legal norms. |
Anonymous
Wrote the person who doesn't know the legal threshold to overturn an admininistrative decision. |